Bio

Lee Wilson made her debut as a classical ballet dancer at the age of sixteenin a command performance for Prince Rainier and Princess Grace in MonteCarlo. She toured Europe with the Hommage au Marquis de Cuevas and waspremière danseuse of the Bordeaux Opera Ballet. At the age of eighteen, shejoined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet under the direction of Dame AliciaMarkova.Lee left ballet for Broadway when she joined the cast of Hello, Dolly!, starringBetty Grable. She continued her Broadway career with Here’s Where I Belong,How Now Dow Jones, the Lincoln Center revival of Oklahoma!, and the originalBroadway company of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, in which she playedPatty.She moved to Los Angeles with the original national company of A Chorus Line. While performing on stage, in feature films, and on television, she received a Clio nomination for the Pepsi “Skywriter” commercial and won the Communications Collaborative Award for the Cleveland Trust commercial “Ballerina.”

In 1983, Lee returned to Broadway for the record-breaking performance of AChorus Line, and in 1989, for the musical Meet Me in St. Louis, for which shereceived the Gypsy Robe.Lee wrote and produced the live-action holiday specials The Elf Who SavedChristmas and The Elf and the Magic Key, which aired domestically on USA Network and have been seen worldwide. She also wrote and produced theaward-winning television movie, The Miracle of the Cards.

Lee holds a degree in performing arts from St. Mary’s College of California. Her memoir, Rebel on Pointe: A Memoir of Ballet and Broadway, is published by the University Press of Florida.